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Just when you thought the super-luxury SUV market calmed down with Lamborghini, Bentley, and Rolls-Royce in the fold, Bugatti could enter the fray and turn the whole segment upside down. That’s the word that came out from no less than Bugatti’s own president, Stephan Winkelmann, at the Paris Motor Show. No confirmation has been made on the matter, but Bugatti is legitimately thinking about expanding its lineup, and an SUV reportedly has the inside track on getting greenlit if the company decides to give the Chiron hypercar a stablemate.

Bugatti is on a roll these days with new cars under its umbrella. With the Divo creating so much hype lately, Bugatti decided to switch the focus to some other news. The automaker has subtly stated that the Chiron could finally have a sibling, although not immediately. And, from what we can deduce, it will most likely be an SUV. Talk about the market trend affecting even the most exclusive automakers!

Bugatti is on a roll these days with new cars under its umbrella. With the Divo creating so much hype lately, Bugatti decided to switch the focus to some other news. The automaker has subtly stated that the Chiron could finally have a sibling, although not immediately. And, from what we can deduce, it will most likely be an SUV. Talk about the market trend affecting even the most exclusive automakers!

Despite producing some of the most powerful and expensive sports cars on the planet, Bugatti’s priorities aren’t necessarily tied to one-upping the competition in terms of ultimate top speed. In fact, Bugatti feels like it doesn’t have to prove, well, anything.

Despite producing some of the most powerful and expensive sports cars on the planet, Bugatti’s priorities aren’t necessarily tied to one-upping the competition in terms of ultimate top speed. In fact, Bugatti feels like it doesn’t have to prove, well, anything.

At the other end of life, at the other end of the universe, and at the other end of money people are actually thinking of increasing the power output of Bugatti’s W16 engine. You know – the one that produces 1479 horsepower for the Chiron, 1184 horsepower for the Veyron Super Sports, and 987 horsepower for the Veyron.

How to proceed? What will the future make of the famed 16-cylinder engine that was developed from that awesome Volkswagen W12? That question is occupying the great mind of Stephan Wilkenmann, Bugatti CEO, as he walks in his haute couture suits with a neverending smirk on his face.

Does it bother him? I would not say so as he just sold 40 Divos for 5.8 mil a pop even before unveiling the car. He could sell all remaining Chirons, too. Right now! However, he has to slow down and let the Chiron live its full life. That is more than 8 years.

What happens after that? The W16 will be too old, and according to Winkelmann’s talk from the Divo presentation, it already operates almost at the edge of its capacity. In other words, the W16 cannot churn much more power without sacrificing some of the reliability, or refinement. If it sacrifices any of it, it would not be a Bugatti then, would it?

There aren’t that many Bugatti Chiron owners that would want to mess with the standard setup of their hypercar by changing its rims. This, after all, is a 260+ mph car and every bit of it is tuned to perfection. Still, the owner of this red carbon beauty wanted his car to be extra unique, so he had it fitted with a set of sick ANRKY Wheels.

Now, a lot of you may not like the design and finish of these wheels on this Chiron. You may argue that brushed face and polished windows are not the best pair for maroon-tinted carbon fiber. And you’d be right. But you have to take into account that it’s probably a helluva job finding the right set of wheels for a car like the Chiron. These are probably the only ANRKY wheels that are the correct size for the hypercar.

Speaking of size, the rims on this bad boy measure 20×10 inch on the front and 21×13 inch out back. And they are shod with the Chiron’s OEM tires, because again, you can just pop down your local tire shop and get a set of rubber that fits this car. Going with the stock tire also means the performance won’t be affected, or will be in the minutest degree. There might be some weight difference between these ANRKY Wheels and the stock rims, but that shouldn’t have that big an effect on the dynamics of the car.

Revealed at “The Quail” as part of Monterey Car Week, the new Bugatti Divo represents the next step into the extreme for the company that produces the fastest car on the planet – the Chiron. The new car takes a slightly different approach to life compared to the Chiron. Apart from being extremely fast and ridiculously powerful, the Divo moves a bit more to the dynamism and cornering abilities, so the top speed is its second priority. While it is based on the Chiron, the Divo feels like a new car, and this made me list a number of facts and differences between the Divo and the Chiron.

Now, I did say that the top speed feels like it’s only the second priority for the Divo. Well, that second priority is at 236 mph.

The Bugatti Divo is a track-focused version of the Chiron. It’s also the supercar through which Bugatti revived its coachbuilding tradition after seven decades. Although based on the Chiron, the Divo looks significantly different, boasting what appears to be a new design language.

The Divo isn’t Bugatti’s first attempt to turn the Chiron into a better car at the track. The Chiron Sport was the first to bring enhanced dynamics, but the Divo takes everything to a new level with significantly higher performance in terms of lateral acceleration, agility, and cornering. As Bugatti puts it, the Divo “is made for corners.”

Just like the Chiron, the new supercar is named after a famous Bugatti racing driver. This time around, it’s Albert Divo – a two-time winner of the Targa Florio race on the mountainous roads of Sicily in the late 1920s. Unlike the Chiron, which is limited to 500 units, the Divo will be built in only 40 examples. Let’s see what makes it special.

Keeping kids happily busy since 1949, LEGO has evolved from a company that builds plastic construction toys into one that makes complex models with technical functions through its Technic division. Following a series of scale models based on existing cars, LEGO Technic just launched a life-sized, fully functional Bugatti Chiron.

Let’s not beat around the bush – the Divo does, kind of, look like a Chiron at a glance. But then you look at it, and it becomes clear that there’s a lot of tweaks and changes that make the Divo what it is – and agiler, corner-eating beast from which there is no escape. But how does it really compare to the Chiron? Well let’s take a quick look and see for ourselves:

Finally the highly anticipated Bugatti Divo was unveiled at “The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering“ in Monterey, California, and as expected the car is, well, pretty much what we expected. The Divo is a track-focused Chiron with less weight and sharper handling. We have to say though, the looks did take us by surprise.

We were expecting the Bugatti Divo to be a slightly revised Chiron in terms of styling, maybe with a huge wing and some black accents. But that is not the case. As Bugatti says, this car marks the brand’s return to the golden age of coachbuilding. And with a production run of just 40 units, each costing a cool 5 Million EUR, the Divo amounts to the same thing as a one-off coachbuild.

The 1,500 PS power output of the W16, quad-turbo behemoth has not changed in the Bugatti Divo compared to the Chiron. But the new boy is about 35 kg (77 lbs) lighter than its sibling and benefits from much more advanced aerodynamics. That is why Bugatti says the Divo is built for corners. It produces 90 kg (198 lbs) more downforce than the Chiron, and even though its top speed is limited to ONLY 380 km/h (236 mph), it’s 8 seconds quicker around Nardo’s handling circuit, which means it beats the Chiron around pretty much any race track that has corners.

Named after Albert Divo “a French racing driver who was a two-time winner of the famous Targa Florio race on the mountainous roads of Sicily with Bugatti in the late 1920s,” Bugatti Divo is no less luxurious than the Chiron, and some may even say it is better looking as well. But it doesn’t matter, because you can’t buy one. All of the 40 production copies have already been sold.

“When I took up my position at Bugatti at the beginning of the year, I soon learnt that our customers and fans were waiting for a special vehicle which would tell a further story for the brand in addition to the Chiron,” said Stephan Winkelmann, President of Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. “The Bugatti team was also very eager to implement a project like this.”

Buggati has finally revealed the Divo and, as it turns out, it’s basically the Chiron with an attitude problem and an insatiable love for throwing temper tantrums around corners. Seriously – Bugatti took the Chiron, gave it a meaner face, muscular front hood, corner-mounted headlights, and more aggressive side skirts. However, to make room for those side skirts, Bugatti engineers had to reword the side-mounted intakes, which are now smaller than before but have more definition than ever. To compensate for the smaller intakes, the roof has been formed to create a NACA air duct to help keep things cool under the engine’s hood. It’s not all about looks, though is it?

Back in July 2018, Bugatti announced it’s about to launch a “strictly limited model” called the Divo and released a few teaser shots. Naturally, we thought that it would be a special-edition version of the Chiron, but the latest teaser confirms that it’s more than that.

The Bugatti Divo is drawing closer to its highly anticipated debut at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance this coming August. Precious details have been revealed about the hypercar, but it is expected to be a more evocative version of the Chiron, one that will be coach-built and more driver-focused. In the absence of any meaningful information, Bugatti has released a teaser video of the Divo, specifically the raunchy taillights that are completely different from what the Chiron has. Could this be a sign of what we can expect from the Divo? It certainly appears like it.

People are doing all kinds of insane things on the Internet these days, all in the name of getting noticed. Modifying a Bugatti Veyron to be RWD could certainly fall under that category.

Taking responsibility is Houston Crosta, owner
of Royalty Exotic Cars, a Las Vegas-based rental company that specializes in top-shelf machinery.

Why would he do it? Good question. Crosta explains it like this: “when it’s all-wheel drive, 4,000 pounds, the car does not feel fast. It’s going fast, don’t get me wrong. The car beats other cars in a race. But, get in the 720S McLaren, it feels like its gonna kill you.”

Uh, okay. Whatever you say, bruh.

And just like that, Crosta and crew pull the front diff and the front axles. The vid actually provides some interesting views underneath the Veyron while they rip out all the required gear to make it RWD only.

After putting it all back together, sans the stuff to make it AWD, Crosta takes the freshly RWD’d Veyron for a cruise to see how the onboard computer adjusts to the hacked-up drivetrain. All seems well, so you know what happens next – foot down, tires burn.

As a side note, the Veyron uses a special type of Michelin tires that cost $17,000 a set. To unseat them from the Bug’s wheels, you gotta send them back to France and spend $70,000. So yeah, that’s some rather expensive tire smoke.

Congrats dude, you just ruined a $1.5 million car for a YouTube video.

The people who spend $3 million on a car tend to be self-indulgent. That is just a given. So it comes as no surprise that their 1,500 horsepower Bugatti Chiron hyper car is not enough as it is. It also has to have a view of the sky. And it’s equally unsurprising that Bugatti should provide them with this option with what they call the Sky View roof.

To be fair though, Bugatti Chiron’s Sky View glass roof is not just about letting a bit of sunlight in. It does make the interior of the Chiron a lot less claustrophobic. What’s more, it adds 2.7 centimeters of headroom, which is excellent. The Sky View is made from a newly developed laminated glass which, according to Bugatti, provides top-notch noise abatement and thermal comfort.

Bugatti promises the Sky View roof does not make you suffer too much wind noise, and that it reflects all infrared and ultraviolet radiation away. The Chiron being a low car, Bugatti has thought of bald billionaires too and has tinted the glass so they won’t have to worry about people in the next car laughing at their bald patch. The tinting also prevents the dazzling effect. As an extra bonus, the two fixed glass panels in the roof of the vehicle, each 65 cm long and 44 cm wide with four intermediate layers, do not compromise the structural rigidity of the Chiron or its safety.

One could also say the Sky View roof also acts as an styling feature. It gives you a dim clue as to how the Chiron Roadster will look like. You can see the glass-roofed Chiron at the Monterey Car Week in California at the end of August 2018. Or if you can afford the car, it is available to order effective immediately.

A heavily wrapped Bugatti Chiron-based prototype has been spotted at the Nurburgring, triggering alarm bells that this model could be none other than the limited edition Divo that Bugatti announced just last week. There are no indications that this test mule is, in fact, the Divo, but with little news on the front of other Chiron derivatives these days, it stands to reason that Bugatti wouldn’t send a prototype to the ‘Ring to do testing if it has no plans to do anything about it.

For most of us regular folks, a standard oil change typically costs anywhere from $30 to $100. It’s usually more expensive when we’re talking about premium cars, but that same train-of-thought is taken to the extreme level when we’re talking about a car like the Bugatti Veyron. The embodiment of excess, the Veyron is more than just a $1.5 million supercar that once held the title as the world’s fastest production car. Everything about it is expensive, right down to the oil change, which can ring you up a staggering $21,000.

The Bugatti Chiron exceeds at excess. The speed, the power, the price… any way you slice it, the Chiron is way over the top. However, despite this overarching emphasis on velocity, the Chiron was never a particularly agile vehicle, instead relying on its mammoth grip and high-tech AWD system to move the mass around an apex. Now, however, it looks like that might change, as the top bug is gearing up for a fresh limited-run edition that emphasizes cornering in a whole new way.